Gunpowder has been used for centuries, but did you know that the Chinese invented it by complete accident? Here's everything ...

A scattering of pock marks on Pompeii’s city walls may prove a mythological “super weapon” may have been real after all.

A network of trenches, walls and enclosures built across the steppes of China and Mongolia 800 years ago seems to have been ...

[4] The sheng was invented when people stuck bamboo pipes ... Some feature illustrations of phoenixes and generic scenes from ancient China, while others are decorated with Chinese calligraphy.

For more detail on these diverse ingredients in traditional Chinese apothecaries go here. Items not to scale. Photographed at Emperor’s College of Traditional Oriental Medicine, Santa Monica ...

Ancient Chinese made various kinds of incense burners ... the Tang Dynasty (618-907A.D.), one of the strongest dynasties in China's history, it had become a fashion among aristocrats to place ...